@chipsncoffee I apologize if this is not the proper place for this, if you don't want it in your thread I will gladly remove it. I was trying to find the right place to ask this and maybe a separate thread is the only answer, but I believe this is on topic here.
I was just reading another thread where a player was allowed to go $800 in debt with no money up front. Player apparently lost $700 in another session and this time said "I am not paying because I think you guys are cheating" got me thinking of the possibilities and curious if collusion in online poker has been discussed which brought me to this thread.
I don't play online poker at all, I don't trust it, that's a personal preference. But who is to say other than an honor system of hey we are all real people and there is no cheating here! That you walk into a table of "friends that have played together for years" you have 2 massively bad sessions... just got me thinking. Is it not possible that a group is all sitting in a zoom meeting, multi way phone call or even using the WhatsApp to basically play 7 vs 1? I mean what would stop this from happening?
I figure the only response here will be know your friends, know your group! But what about the guy trying to find a new game or most of their online group are vaccinated and they went back to live poker and the online club broke up. Also possibly the comment of limit yourself to 1 or 2 buy ins until you feel comfortable with that new group. But at the end of the day this is absolutely an honor system and when money is involved. The line between what's right/turning a profit can easily become broken
Obviously if paying up front you have the right to walk away when you want to or suspect something fishy... just seems like this could easily happen regularly, I miss poker and right now maybe playing once a month, but I will wait for a live game where everyone is in the same room personally, not saying anyone in this hobby has questionable integrity... just seems like this would be way too easy to pull off, I'm sure there are probably more threads about it but after hearing a guy loosing $800 in online poker (I would never play that big even in real life) it really has my gears going this morning.
Fellow Chipper Ben